Olaf with Garen
How to Synergize Olaf and Garen
based on 294 Olaf with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Garen Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Garen
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Garen
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Olaf Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Olaf sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Olaf perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf plays on the same team as Garen, he sees a moderate decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Garen does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Garen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of covering Olaf in team fights.
Synergies between Olaf and Garen
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Olaf that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Garen is a very bad companion for Olaf. By being on the same team as Olaf, he lowers their win rate by -3.8% to 45.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Olaf and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Olaf. That means Olaf players need to be careful when enlisting Garen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Olaf players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Olaf and Garen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Olaf to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Olaf and Garen synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Death's Dance. When Olaf incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 45.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.2% winrate overall.
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